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114 MOSQUITOES OF NORTH AMERICA<br />

line, a single, ra<strong>the</strong>r long hair on ventral-posterior angle; dorsal<br />

brush consists <strong>of</strong> a long hair and a tuft on ei<strong>the</strong>r side; ventral brush<br />

well developed with small tufts preceding <strong>the</strong> barred area to near <strong>the</strong><br />

base. The air-tube slender, four times as long as wide; pecten not<br />

reaching <strong>the</strong> middle <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> tube, <strong>the</strong> last two or three teeth larger<br />

and detached; tuft large, beyond <strong>the</strong> pecten.<br />

This is a very widely distributed species. It occurs through-<br />

out <strong>the</strong> nor<strong>the</strong>rn United States extending southward along <strong>the</strong><br />

mountain ranges, Canada, North Europe and North Asia. It<br />

breeds in situations quite similar to those <strong>of</strong> A. stiwzulans<br />

though its preference seems to be swamps and grassy marshes<br />

flooded during <strong>the</strong> early spring. The adults appear usually<br />

somewhat earlier than A. stiwm~aans and have similar habits,<br />

living till late in <strong>the</strong> season and attacking at all times during<br />

<strong>the</strong> day in <strong>the</strong> shade and wooded areas. There is but one<br />

brood a season. The eggs are laid during <strong>the</strong> summer, hatching<br />

<strong>the</strong> following spring. I have reared a single adult from a lar-<br />

vae on September 29. This is <strong>the</strong> only known record <strong>of</strong> this<br />

species breeding late in <strong>the</strong> season.<br />

AEDES FITCHII Felt and Young<br />

CuCex @c/G Felt and Young. Science, N.S. 20, 312. 1904.<br />

Aedes jvh&is Dyar, Ins. Ins. Mens. 4, 89. 1916.<br />

Aedes fialustris var. pricei Dyar, Ins. Ins. Mens. 5, 16. 1917.<br />

Aedes nzivttesis Dyar, Ins. Ins. Mens. 5, 116. 1917.<br />

Female. Length 5 mm.; wing 4.5 mm. Proboscis slender, brown-<br />

ish-black. Occiput brownish-black, clo<strong>the</strong>d with narrow, curving, ap-<br />

pressed whitish scales, somewhat brownish laterally, and many slen-<br />

der, erect, forked black scales on <strong>the</strong> nape; cheeks with broad, flat<br />

white scales and a small squarish patch <strong>of</strong> black ones behind <strong>the</strong> mid-<br />

dle <strong>of</strong> eye. Mesonotum dark brown, densely clo<strong>the</strong>d with narrow,<br />

curving scales-a broad median band <strong>of</strong> yellowish brown ones, <strong>the</strong><br />

anterior edge, <strong>the</strong> sides <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> disk and <strong>the</strong> antescutellar area with<br />

yellowish-white to white ones ; sides <strong>of</strong> disks with many brown<br />

scales mixed with <strong>the</strong> white ones. Abdomen black; each segment<br />

with a broad basal band <strong>of</strong> white scales and a few white ones at<br />

apex; venter entirely pale scaled. Wings with black and white<br />

scales, about evenly mixed. Legs black; femora and tibiae with

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